What's this ‘Libya model’ North Korea is so angry about?

www.washingtonpost.com—The world, North Korea said, “knows too well that our country is neither Libya nor Iraq which have met miserable fates.”

The North Korea end game cannot be the "Libya model". Last week John Bolton remarked that the end game of the nuclear negotiations with North Korea was to replicate the “Libyan model.” Later, Bolton spelled out that what he meant was that all of North Korea’s nuclear devices should be turned over to us and “stored at Oak Ridge.” President Trump was unclear about whether he agreed or disagreed with this notion, or even if he understood what was being proposed. But let’s begin with a brief history of the Libyan nuclear program. (Much of this story...

The White House on Wednesday dismissed suggestions that President Trump is using Libyan disarmament as a model for his negotiations with North Korea, a day after Kim Jong Un threatened to cancel his upcoming summit with the U.S. leader.

On Thursday, citing the ‘open hostility’ of the North Korean regime, President Donald Trump cancelled the June 12th summit. Appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations committee, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended the administration’s decision. Sen. Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts) observed that the hostility emanating from Pyongyang was hardly a surprise, given recent statements by National Security Advisor John Bolton citing the ‘Libya’ or ‘Gadaffi’ model. Mike Pence also warned Kim...